#Discretionary Spending

The new Congress is re-fighting last year’s battle over immigration and Homeland Security funding for Fiscal 2015, which is now already three and a half months old. Stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to expire…

The 114th Congress convenes today with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate for the first time in President Obama’s presidency, underscoring the importance of bipartisanship in dealing with the nation’s key fiscal challenges. These challenges remain significant, despite the…

WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Senators J. Robert Kerrey and John C. Danforth today released an update of a 1994 commission report on entitlement and tax reform and called on Americans -- particularly presidential hopefuls -- to quickly address the nation’s…

Twenty years after the Kerrey-Danforth Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform issued its bipartisan findings, its co-chairs on Dec. 16 will release an update and explain why Americans today -- including the 2016 presidential candidates -- should champion broad fiscal…

President Obama this month signed a measure that provides $11 billion to fund the Highway Trust Fund through May, relying heavily on a budget gimmick euphemistically known as “pension smoothing.” Congress approved the legislation in late July.The Senate had stripped…

The Senate was scheduled to vote on an $11 billion highway bill later today -- only days before the Department of Transportation (DOT) says it will be forced to begin delaying and cutting payments to state governments for transportation projects.The…

The House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee approved similar plans last Thursday to transfer $10 billion in general revenues to the Highway Trust Fund.Unfortunately, both plans rely on “pension smoothing,” a gimmick that was used in the…

Lawmakers must carefully review President Obama’s request for “emergency” funding this year to fight wildfires, increase border security and deal with a surge of migrants from Central America.The President has asked for $3.7 billion to improve border security while addressing…